An Explorers Guide to the Bruce Peninsula The Bruce Peninsula offers spectacular scenery and an array of exciting year-round adventures for hikers, kayakers, anglers, ATV riders and snowmobilers. Read More >
Ultimate Southern Ontario Road Trip Heading out on a road trip from the GTA leads to quaint small-town communities and spectacular natural attractions spread throughout Southern Ontario. Read More >
Camping Alternatives in Ontario If you think it seems impossible to get a campsite at an Ontario Provincial Park this year, you are not alone. With folks wanting to get out into nature due to COVID restrictions, parks are getting slammed with campers, many exploring this activity for the first time. Even the National Parks and Conservation Areas are booked up as well. What’s … Read More >
NEW BRMB Algonquin Park App – Your Offline Map & Guide for Algonquin Park Interested in exploring one of Canada’s greatest treasures with the confidence of a good map that works deep in the backcountry? Then look no further! Backroad Mapbooks has just launched a new app specific to Algonquin Park and the surrounding area. Available for both IOS and Android users, the Algonquin Park Adventure Map app shows all the paddling routes, campsites, … Read More >
Exploring Northwestern Ontario Northwestern Ontario is a vast landscape, home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the entire province. While roads travel as far north as Pickle Lake, over 60% of Northwestern Ontario has no road access! Highway 11 and 17 make their way into Northwestern Ontario from the east, merging from Nipigon through to Thunder Bay. Separating at Thunder Bay, … Read More >
Stranger Things you can find in Canada Should you stay in your regular adventure areas, or should you go and explore some of these unique places in Canada? This Halloween, discover the stranger things we have hiding in the backcountry of Canada. Read More >
Exploring Ontario’s Egan Chutes As you walk along the sandy trail from the parking area, the calm York River gives no preview to what’s ahead. But the closer you get to the chutes, the more the sound of rushing water grows, assaulting your ears with its volume. Egan Chutes is a non-operating Ontario Park and unless you know where you are heading, it’s quite … Read More >
Ten Must See Attractions in Ontario’s Cottage Country Because of its close proximity to large urban centres such as Toronto, Kingston, North Bay and Ottawa, Eastern Ontario and Cottage Country destinations require less driving and feature some impressive day trip locations. Even though this part of Ontario is heavily populated, major expressways leading to winding backcountry roads allow explorers to quickly get away from the crowds and … Read More >
Spend your New Year’s Eve in Canada’s Great Outdoors! Wow, what a year! With 2019 nearly upon us, it’s time to reflect on all the awesome adventures we have had in 2018, and to look ahead to a full year of exploring the Canadian backcountry in 2019. For the BRMB team, 2018 has been full of everything from camping to ATVing, fishing, skiing and snowboarding, hiking and much more. … Read More >
Canadian Bucket List Adventures Canada is full of one-of-a-kind adventures from coast to coast. No matter which type of adventurer you are, there are some places that you just have to see. To fill you in on a few of them, here is our list of Canadian bucket list adventures. Read More >
Celebrating Canada’s Veterans At Backroad Mapbooks, we are immensely grateful for the freedom to go out and explore our beautiful outdoors. With this in mind, we have put together a list of some of Canada’s most spectacular and lesser known monuments to our esteemed veterans. Read More >
